San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-01-15
LATEST TELEGRAPH NEWS
From all Parts of the Globe, Con-
densed and Boiled Down.

tence ut Richmond, Va, yesterday.
United States senate reduces militia
appropriation from 5000, 600 to $4O0, 900.
Earl of Iddesleigh's death causes pro-
found regret throughout all England.
The opposition to the confirmation Of
Benedict. public printer, continues.
Nothing new In New jersey or lndi-
ana legislatures.
The liberal union conferences are de-
ferred until parliament meets.
The new ministers kissed the queens
hands yesterday.
Gladstone has been Frustrated since
hearing of Iddesleigh's death.
Phillip Boswell (cOlored) of Galveston,
is in jail for raping his ten-year-Old step
daughter. He should be In hsdes.
Longshoremen riot at New Orleans.
Three persons seriously hurt. Police
are after the riDg-leaders.
The strike at Newport News is set
tied, virtually, with the work In the
hands of new laborers.
Cleveland and wife held their first re-
ceptiOn last night in honor of the diplo-
matte corps.
Maxey's appearance at Austin has
brought his name to the front In pool
selling.
There Is nothing new In the European
situation beyond the dissolution OF the
German reichstag.
The nomination Of Mathews, minister
to Mexico, 10 before the senate, but they
have taken nc notice OF 1t.
The army and navy general hospital
at Hot Sp' ings, Ark, will be formally
opened next Monday.
The New York World, having advo-
GATED COnkling's election to the senate,
lie dubbed mugwump.
Senate committee reports adversely on
the nomination OF Matthews as register
of deeds of District Columbia.
Tennessee democracy nominate
Whitthorn for the unexplred senatorial
term.
The subcommittee on post-offices
have finished their work, and the bill
IL be reported next week.
The San Francisco dynamiters are
still at work playing smash with the
cattle road.
The Queen mOurns for Lord Iddes-
leigh, (oir Stafford NorthcOte,) as for q
personal friend.
Manchester workingmen's mobs COM
mence riot, but are dispersed by the
police; two arrested.
lords body all night after mis- sudden
summons.
The supreme court re-appoints
Reaves, OF Tyler, clerk OF the Tyler
branch OF the court for the next four
years.
Senator Eustes proposes to expend
SlO.VO in Investigating the method of
inOculating for yellow fever, practiced
in Brazil and Mexico.
Bright considers Americas fishery
claims very reasonable, and says were
England alone concerned the United
States grievances would have been re.
dressed long ago.
Germany and Russia are all harmoni-
GUS but Austria and Russia have bones
to pick outside Of the Bulgarian ques-
ton.
Interstate commerce occupied the at
tention OF the senate. The motion to re-
commit was lost-25 to SO. The motion
for conference carried-43 to 10.
The house passed several private SEN
ate bills and score Of pension bills; also
the conference report on the electoral
count bill.
Among the bills before the legislature
Is one extending the time of sessions to
10 days and making salaries Of mem
beers $500 per day.
After being Out over ITO hours, the
jury In the case of Hamilton, the Kansas
City train wrecker. could NOT agree, and
were discharged. Jury stood seven to
convict and five to aoquit.
U. s. suit to recover $l740OO, claimed
to have been oveTpeid Oh Star route
from Ft. Worth TO Yuma. Arizona, the
jury returned u verdict against u. 8.
without leaving the box.
Reports from the principal cotton sta
tiOns in Texas, received by Galveston
firms, show not TO exceed 10000 bales in
sight. This would indicate q crop not
more, under any contingencies, than
l,2j0, 600 bales.
El Psso's city physician certifies that
there Is not case OF smallpox In the
city; and 1t Is asserted that the report
was started by bunco thieves run out OF
the city.
The Tilden executors find about $780,
GOO available for library purposes and
ask the New York state legislature for
suitable legislation for incorporating.
Petitions for relief. from the drouth
sufferers, are pouring into the Texas
state legislature and d committee OF re.
ference has been appointed.
Rev. John Patterson, Presbyterian
minister ut Cambridge. Wis, suicided
under mental ALTERATION caused by = &c.
we're sun stroke received last summer.
The comptroller OF the currency has
declared a first dividend Of 30 per cent In
favor OF the creditors Of the First Ma
tiOnsl bank Of Blair, Neb., on elaine
proved, amounting 10 S57, 27S 80.
Bills passed the Texas house yester
day appropriating $4,000 for pay o.
members and $780, for contingent ex
penses. Senators Maxey and Reagan
and Judge Terrell were extendt d The
courtesles of the house.
Striking miners at Moosic, near Soran
ton, Pa, raise u riot, attack the seal
workmeD, resist the police, compelleC
the justice TO release their leader, who
had been arrested, and only dispersed
when a voiiey Of rifle balls was sen
through their ranks. More trouble i
feared.
| The army bill was defeated In tn,
German reichstag. The amendment
limiting the duration Of the bill to thre,
years was carried lS6 20 81. The reich
stsg was dissolved and tho election for
new assembly will be held next month
Bills before the senate continue Il
multiply. The bulletin board 10 from
OF the capitol, on which the state OF tn